The Collaborative International Dictionary
Graduated \Grad"u*a"ted\, a.
Marked with, or divided into, degrees; divided into grades.
(Zo["o]l.) Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer.
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Having visible marks and numbers at vertical intervals, permitting one to estimate the quantitity of material contained; -- of vessels, most commonly those used in laboratories for containing liquids. See graduated cylinder, etc., below.
Graduated cylinder, Graduated flask, Graduated tube, Graduated bottle, Graduated cap, Graduated glass a vessel, usually of glass, having horizontal marks upon its sides, with figures, to indicate the amount of the contents at the several levels.
Graduated spring (Railroads), a combination of metallic and rubber springs.
Usage examples of "graduated glass".
So I took a graduated glass and kind of turned my back to her and picked out a bottle that looked all right, because a man that would keep poison setting around in a unlabelled bottle ought to be in jail, anyway.
Fu-Manchu felt for the pulse of the boy whom a moment since I had pronounced dead, and, stepping to the tall glass case, took out a long-necked flask of chased gold, and from it, into a graduated glass, he poured some drops of an amber liquid wholly unfamiliar to me.
From it ran a tube which ended in another graduated glass tube with a thin line of mercury in it like a thermometer.
Thereon stood scales of several sizes, a graduated glass vessel half full of water, an arithmetical reckoner, and certain reference works.
I put a ligature on Rheya, took some blood from a median vein and transferred it to a graduated glass, then divided it between several test-tubes and began the analyses.
That graduated glass which you see on the table is filled with the elixir.